Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) 7.12 Released

Better late than never, PVS 7.12 has been released. Provisioning Services 7.12 includes a number of notable fixes, and a much-anticipated tech preview release of Linux VDA streaming. Additionally, PVS is now capable of clearing cached Windows credentials – a feature I know a few of my customers had inquired about. This will need to be enabled on existing vDisks but it is enabled by default on new vDisks.

Fixed Issues

Console Issues

A user on PVS 7.8 with “Farm Administrator” rights might not be able to connect to the server farm unless the account is in the same domain as the security group with the “Farm Administrator” rights.
[#LC5432]

Attempts to create an ISO with the New-BootDeviceManager PowerShell script can fail and the following error message appears: “ISOFileName must be called with the name of the new ISO file to create.”
[#LC5559]

After upgrading to PVS 7.11 from version 7.6, users in other domains might not be able to log on to the console.
[#LC6216]

PVS console suffers delays when connecting to a Store on a remote share (NFS or SMB) containing many disks.
[#LC4765]

Streamed VM setup Wizard failed to create VM on SCVMM host.
[#LC5871]

Server Issues

Soapserver process is consuming more than 13 GB of RAM.
[#LC6199]

Two PVS servers might not be able to see the replication status of a vDisk on the opposite server, but each server shows the status of its own vDisks properly.
[#LC4317]

When running replication status for two PVS servers from the PVS console, the status for both servers is shown as incomplete.
[#LC5700]

The BNPXE Server that enables the target devices to start from the network binds to the IP address 127.0.0.1. This prevents target devices from booting. This issue can happen when BNPXE enumerates the network interfaces, but the operating system has not discovered all the interfaces yet and only returns 127.0.0.1.
[#LC5916]